The most dominant food in Kiribati such as rice, fish, breadfruit, pumpkin, shell fish and octopus were cooked at varied times. The cooking time also varied with weather conditions such as air temperature, wind and cloud cover. A total number of 18 women from South Tarawa, Kiribati were interviewed on the most common method of cooking, the costs of energy used and household income activities. The women were eager to get solar cookers of their own but the affordability is an issue as both the Parabolic and SunOven cookers are factory made and are not affordable to most people in Kiribati. Women are willing to pay on a micro financing application which is to be established once the monitoring exercises and the acceptance and promotion of the solar cookers is completed. The next phase of the